Utricularia spiralis

[ICPS-bob]

Martin Zevenbergen recently sent me these photos of Utricularia spiralis:









For more information, see Martin's article in the December 1997 issue of CPN
www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/articles/CPNv26n4p112_114.pdf

[BarryRice]

Hey Bob,

Looking at these photographs, I'm struck by the obvious fact that the blue spot on the proximal palate is dark purple in some flowers, light blue on others.

I wonder if this plant, much like lupines, signals to pollinators whether it has been pollinated or not via a color change?

Barry

[agamemnon]

Hi,

please you have some new contact for Martin J. Zevenbergen? That it will be for me great information

thanks a lot..

martin spousta

[marcel]

I pm-ed you.

[jm82792]

I want to grow it for the flowers!